As I sit down to write this, miss Amelia is slowly putting herself to sleep and I'm looking around thinking that I should totally pickup and start cleaning, but instead I am going to reminisce....
Someone said, Life is about storms, you are either in a storm, coming out of a storm or about ready to go into a storm. And as I think about life I realize how true the statement is. Storms can be either long or short, mild or severe. When you come out of the storm you feel some level of relief for surviving, but you also realize how God was faithful and somehow He gave you the strength to get through it. And in many ways God figures out ways to bless you or teach you through it all. Now I'm not about ready to claim we have been experiencing a storm like cancer, but it was definitely a hard week. And when I look back on this entry in the future - I am not going to want to re-live that week - so I'm going to skip that part. But this I will say - oh how I love this family of mine - Patrick and Amelia are truly the loves of my life and it is so much better with them in it. And God in his grace provided us with fun blessings and lessons - and those I will write down......
Patrick and Amelia have such fun times together which I love to watch! Just as Patrick and I are different, so are our relationships with our baby girl. He allows her to be more independent so she can explore and learn to not be needy. Me - I tend to be right there, helping her along the way with whatever she needs. "Hovering"....well, that may be a stretch, but I'm very helpful. :) While this is great for supporting her - I realized this week - taking a bit of a step back may be healthy, so I have been trying to do that a little bit more. Taking this step back also includes as my dearest brother reminded me one day... "to save some words for me!!" Amelia - unbeknown to me - started saying 'Da' and I didn't even know! Evidently, she has been saying it to Patrick for a couple days before I had heard her. And now, she is even saying "DaDa" - of course, Patrick loves the fact that she says this before mama! How can I blame him?! I would be eating it up! In my defense - he has been working with her on it for quite some time! (Needless to say I'm now working on the 'mama'). Amelia - my dear child - you have reached another milestone.
But that is not the only milestone lately. I'm realizing she is quite the observer....she now claps her hands together! Often I clap my hands with her and say 'Yay' and she has caught on! It is so sweet to see. Now her default had movement is clapping and she gets the biggest smile when you add the 'Yay!'
Amelia is also becoming quite the ball handler! Makin' her daddy proud. Patrick will roll the ball to her and she does this flapping of her arms and sort of does a swat to the ball and off it goes rolling in some sort of a direction. And back and forth goes the rhythm of her ball handling skills with her daddy.
The peak to my 'stepping back' came this morning.....Patrick and I were in the bathroom getting ready and Amelia was out in the loft. She cannot crawl yet, but she can migrate. This morning she was on one of her migrations and I peaked out at her. She was on her belly - now when I looked not even 30 seconds before she had been on her back! So I sat there peaking around the corner like a little kid who was spying on my parents after being put to bed! She then rolled onto her back - a normal occurrence - and sure enough she pops herself back onto her belly!!! Trying to conceal my delight I pull Patrick and we both are now children spying on their parents! How exciting! I have a feeling with this new found ability her migrations will become even more prevalent.
And so closes our latest storm, with a few blessings, lessons learned and I believe we are closer as well as stronger.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....its learning to dance in the rain....
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